Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party

The Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP) was a communist political party in Khmer Rouge-era Cambodia that was active from 1979 to 1991. The party was founded in 1979 when Pen Sovan and other dissident Communist Party of Kampuchea members held a congress, and the party considered 28 June 1951 (the day that the CPK split from the Indochinese Communist Party) as its founding date. The existence of the party was kept secret until 1981, and it was the sole legal party in the country until 1991. The 1980s saw party leader Hong Samrin take on a more reformist outlook. During the transitional times of the state of Cambodia, the single-party system as well as the Marxist-Leninist ideology were abandoned. The party was renamed to the "Cambodian People's Party", which would be a big tent party, not a communist party.